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Im an Athiest now

have been for a while, it was a rather slow transition since about this time last year as each and every single reason I did believe I realized to be a fallacy, I was about October when I gave up on Pascal's wager and since then I have been trying to find myself

just wanted to tell you all just in case your wondering why that crazy Catholic guy is now using skepticist arguments

I still think Ed was an ass though, if anything Ed made me a theist longer in an attempt to gather my thoughts against him.

Yeah, I got baptised when I was 1 against my will (obviously) but I'm not really sure when I became atheist, I never really believed in god and it all seemed kinda stupid to me. But then again I live in Australia where there are so many cultures that there aren't nearly as many people who condemn you to hell.

im not sure i'd call myself an 'atheist' because having been preoccupied by the idea for a very very long time, nothing about the existence of existence and consciousness makes the slightest bit of sense. obviously agnostic etc though, cant remember any time i wasnt.

"I'll go," said Chagataev. "But what will I do there? Build socialism?"
"What else?" said the secretary.

yes, and that makes no sense when it comes down to it. but physical existence is even more perplexing. the universe as a collection of particles exists, it exists within a space. what in the world is that "space" exactly.

consciousness exits. clearly it feels like "something" to be alive, to be cognizant. no one has the slightest idea what to actually make of that when it comes down to it.

"I'll go," said Chagataev. "But what will I do there? Build socialism?"
"What else?" said the secretary.

It's weird that nearly everyone believes in souls yet there is no scientific evidence to back up the idea of a soul. Yet it's how we rationlize consciousness, we think of our body a support system of the soul; we prioritize the soul over the body when the body is something we actually have direct effect over...

space is just the dimensions for which the particles act in, Newton thought of space as almost the "stage" of the universe in theater terms, although Einstein theorized that its much more complex than that